Extension-couch.



(a. F. SISBOWER & L. E. PITTONI.

EXTENSION coucn. APPLICATION FILED AUG-2|. 1914 Patented July 5), 1918.

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GEORGE F. SISBOWER, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, AND LOUIS E. PITTONI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO NEW YORK COUCH BED COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented July 9, 1918.

Application filed August 2 1, 1914. Serial No. 857,901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the .county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and LOUIS E. PIT roNI, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at New York city, county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extension- Conchcs, the following being a fnll, clear, and exact disclosure of the one form of our inventionwhich we at present deem preferable.

For a detailed. description of the present .form' of our invention. reference-may be had to the following specification and to the accompanying drawing forming a part thereof, in which- I Figure 1 is a perspective view of our couch, and

Fig. 2 an end elevation thereof,

Our invention involves an extension conch having couch frames, one stationary, the other movable, with an operating device to open and close the couch and a two-part mattress, together with a separate operating device for opening and closing the mattress, whereby the shifting of the two couch frames is a separate and independent operation from the shifting of the two mattress parts or sections.

In the drawing, A represents a stationary conch-frame and B a movable conch-frame, the latter being arranged to telescope into the former so that it may be drawn out to form a double bed, or pushed in to form a single bed. The frame A has its four legs resting on the floor while the front legs Z) of the frame B rest on the floorand the back legs b which are much shorter, travel The operating device for the two conchframes consists of a lever C pivoted to one leg of the stationary frame and connected by link D to the movable section 13. There is, of course, such a lever at each end'of the conch.

A two-part mattress is provided, one part- F. SIsBownR,

other part G adapted to either be on'the first part, as shown in Fig. 1, or to be moved out to lie on the movable conch-frame as shown in Fig. 2. The mattress is operated separately from and independently of the operation of the conch-frames by means of'a separate and independent operating device which consists of a bar H secured to the side and two ends of the movable part G of the mattress, the two end portions being turned down so as to have an offset pivotal connection with cars It formed on the inner extremities of the end bars of the stationary frame A. This bar acts as. a carrier-frame for the im ttress-pa'rt- G. Assuming the coin-h-frame B to be first drawn out, as shown in Fig. 1, by means of the operating lever C, then the mattress can be operated separately and independently by takinghold of bar H and turning it, together with the part G of the mattress which is secured thereto, over into the open position shown in F on frame A. Then, as a second and inde-' pendent operation, the couch frames will be worked by lever C to draw frame B into frame A- By this means we greatly simplify and render certain and easy the entire operation of the couch. The relation of parts is such that the couch frames can be operated with one hand and the mattress parts by the other hand of a person standing at one endof the bed.

What we claim as new and desire to secnreby Letters Patent is':

A twopartextension couch comprising stationary and movable frame members, the

end bars of the stationary member having lugs projecting from their inner extremities, a folding mattress consisting of a stationary part and a movable part, and an operating device forthe mattress movable independently of the relative movement of said frame members, said operating device consisting ofa frame bar lying along one side and two ends of the movable part of the members and secured to oneside thereof, the. end portions of said'operating device having oifset members pivotally connected our hands, before two subscribing Witnesses,

this 19thday of August, 1914.

GEORGE F. SISBOWER. LOUIS E. PITTONI.

Witnesses:

J RENNECKAR, L. T. S. ERIS-MAN. 

